Nelida
Nelida was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,520 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Nelida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 33 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nelida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nelida?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,857, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1964, the peak
Nelida peaked in 1964, when 42 girls were given it, #1,826 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,857 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,663 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,194 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,112 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,823 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,140 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,709 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,098 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,680 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,202 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #13,104 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,958 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,128 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,785 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,323 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,566 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,403 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,399 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,113 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,497 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,713 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,219 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,746 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,587 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,288 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,556 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,456 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,796 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,898 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,619 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,047 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,292 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,331 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,611 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,120 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,086 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,427 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,391 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,971 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,635 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,125 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,121 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,048 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,998 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,168 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,144 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,251 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,125 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,280 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,886 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,568 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,411 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,339 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,993 | 23.7 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,153 | 19.5 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,155 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,334 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,975 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,826 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,047 | 17.6 |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,059 | 16.8 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,232 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,968 | 16.8 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,841 | 18.3 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,726 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,052 | 14.2 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,958 | 15.4 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,448 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,278 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,055 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,887 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,236 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,864 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,810 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,793 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,881 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,817 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,394 | 4.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,683 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nelida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nelida has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nelida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nelida, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,520 Americans ever recorded as Nelida. The median Nelida alive today is 48 years old; half are between 33 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 4,865 people named Nelida (4,859 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,396 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 334 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 413 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 217 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 66 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nelida born?
The states with the most babies named Nelida are New York, California and New Jersey, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 348 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| California | 271 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 54 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Nelida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nelida is most over-represented in New York: since 1933 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nelida with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 21,664 babies since 1880, Nelida is the second most given (7.0% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nelida
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nelida and names like it
- Compare Nelida and NeldaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sNelida peaked in 1964.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nelida since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Nelida.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nelida alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.